HIGHLIGHTS
Short film of Virtual Physiological Human
Interface Focus special issue with best papers from the VPH2010 Conference
VPH Vision & Strategy Paper II
LATEST VPH EVENTS
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Welcome to the home page of the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE) and information portal for the VPH Initiative
The VPH NoE is a project which aims to help support and progress European research in biomedical modelling and simulation of the human body. This will improve our ability to predict, diagnose and treat disease, and have a dramatic impact on the future of healthcare, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
Latest News
3rd VPH study group on VPH Toolkit
The third VPH NoE study group (SG3) was held in Barcelona from 7th – 11th May. The event, organised by the University of Sheffield, Super Computing Solutions, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, took place on the Universitat Pompeu Fabra premises the week after the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2012).
Call for Papers: DCICTIA-MICCAI 2012
The MICCAI Workshop on Data- and Compute-Intensive Clinical and Translational Imaging Applications (DCICTIA-MICCAI 2012) takes place in the Acropolis Convention Center - Nice, France on October 1st, 2012 (morning) in conjunction with MICCAI'2012.
The deadline for submission is May 30th, 2012.
For more information, please visit the website
First VPH-Share newsletter available now!
The VPH-Share project has now successfully completed its first year of actvities and have just published the first issue of its newsletter.
VPH-Share is a 4-year large-scale integrating project funded under the European Community’s FP7 aiming at developing the infostructure and integrating the optimised services to:
- expose and share data and knowledge
- jointly develop multiscale models for the composition of new VPH workflows
- facilitate collaborations within the VPH community
The project has now successfully completed its first year of actvities and have just published the first issue of its newsletter.
Newsletter table of contents:
- Editorial: Rod Hose
- News
- VPH-Share GA Report/Overview of Year 1 with Keith McCormack
- Publications Focus: Overview of all publications from Year 1-VPH-Share and P Medicine: Interviews with Rod Hose and Norbert Graf
- Partner Profile: SCS srl
- Public Focus: Cloud Computing
- A Global Share: Map of Partner Locations
- Researcher Profile: Susheel Varma, University of Sheffield
DataFlow: New beta release available
The DataFlow project is proud to announce new release candidates for the DataStage and DataBank software, which are nearly feature-complete.DataFlow is creating a two-stage data management infrastructure that makes it easy for you and your research group to work with, annotate, publish, and permanently store your research data.
You can download the software as a virtual machine or as debian-packaged files from the DataStage downloads and DataBank downloads pages on their website. They are working on video walkthroughs for installation and use – and will post these to their home page as soon as they are ready. In the meantime, they recommend reading their Information for test users page.
Please let them know how you get on: There are four ways to do this:
1) Use their issue tracker to flag up problems or suggest features (instructions here)
2) See (and contribute to) their DataStage and DataBank documentation wikis
3) Monitor (and contribute to) their project email list ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , history here)
4) Email Katherine Fletcher directly ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) if you’re not sure what to do
If you want to try the system without installing it (or get your system to talk to DataStage/DataBank instances), they have two "demo" machines which they keep updated with the latest stable code (open to the public, routinely wiped).
DataStage: http://dataflow-vm1.oerc.ox.ac.uk/
DataBank: http://databank-vm1.oerc.ox.ac.uk/
eHealth News - Europe's Information Society
- ICT Proposers' Day 2012
This event will offer a networking opportunity to build quality partnerships for participating in the new Information and Communication Technologies Work Programme for 2013. Presentation of project ideas, first-hand information...
- EU Health Prize for Journalists | Submissions deadline: 31 July 2012
The European Commission is proud to present the fourth edition of the EU Health Prize for Journalists. It is awarded to stimulate high-quality journalism that raises awareness of issues related...
- Download "European Health Insurance Card" app for your smartphone | #EHIC #epSOS @epsosproject
With your European Health Insurance Card you can access state-provided healthcare if you fall ill or have an accident during your stay abroad. Show your card to a doctor or...
- Online Engagement
Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 (#DA12)
#DA12 More than 450 members are now discussing on the online discussion platform which Neelie Kroes launched on 19 April. Outcomes of this debate, and the feedback which we...
HealthTech Wire - The Industry News
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Follow the events of HEALTH+IN4MATICS 2012 held from May 9-10 in Birmingham, UK. The HealthTech Wire Team is onsite and will bring you the updates and news as the events...
- From pilot projects to large scale deployment
With the core groups establishing themselves, the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Active and Healthy Ageing is entering a new phase. The action plans for the numerous EIP actions are...
- eHealth needs alignment with health policy
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- Semantic interoperability needs political commitment
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